• Question: Hi, what life skills have you learned through engineering that I could use in life?

    Asked by Emma#_#Emma to Hilly, Lee, Liz, Tadhg, Yasmin on 16 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Yasmin Ali

      Yasmin Ali answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      Solving problems and improvising! There’s always more than one way to solve things. When things go wrong, I investigate why and try to find solutions rather than giving up.

    • Photo: Tadhg O'Donovan

      Tadhg O'Donovan answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      So my sister thinks that I should be able to fix her car – because I am a Mechanical Engineer; I can’t! But it would be nice if I could 🙂

      I think I have learned how to work with people with different professions. It is important to understand what they want and to communicate effectively.

    • Photo: Lee Margetts

      Lee Margetts answered on 17 Jun 2015:

      Engineering involves compromising the “perfection” of design with the “practicality” of building the machine or structure; weighing up the risks, the costs and the consequences of different design choices. I’ve not thought about this before, but there is a close link between engineering skills and life skills.

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